"In the United Statesâ(TM) next major war, the Armyâ(TM)s brass is hoping that robots will be the ones taking the first punch, doing the dirty, dull, and dangerous jobs that killed hundredsâ"likely thousandsâ"of the more than 7,000 U.S. service members who died during two decades of wars in the Middle East."
This is a bad thing, and I hope that rogue states will develop good EMP weapons to counteract superpower imperialism. Being able to wage war (commit murder) without taking human casualties will mean that countries will that tech will be able to bully the world even harder than they do now.
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